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Show GHOST IN CENTRAL STAKE I CAUSES A BIG SENSAII A GHOST- that has "been disturbing the peace- of people living in. Central Cen-tral stake, east of Murray, for several days, has been exorcised, and no longer disturbs anyone but the young jnan who discovered It. The discovery came about In' this wise: Tho young man, who Uvea In Central stake, started out last Wednos,-day Wednos,-day night to visit a young lady to whom ho Is more or less devoted. As It was somewhat late and he feared that he would find everyone in bed when he reached his charmer's home, he plucked up his courage and took a short cut through tho lot where repose the forms of the Central stake people who have been called to their reward. He had reached the middle of the cemetery when his apprehensive glance encountered a sight that made his blood run cod. A few yards away a snow-white snow-white tlgure slowly emerged from the ground and hung suspended over a grave. The watcher could distinguish the- outlines of a little child apparently appar-ently 3 or 4 years old. Too terrified gazed at the apparition. As he gazed It gradually disappeared, sinking back into tho earth. The Iono pedestrian thought this a good thno to get away, and made a start. He had moved but a few paces when the pale sceptre again rose from the tomb and hovered above the surface of the ground. Again the young man stopped and again the ghost vanished. Tho same performance was repeated' a third time, whereat the youth turned his back on the haunted grave and fled without another backward lodk. When he reached tho home of hlq sweetheart his pale and breathless condition con-dition caused inquiries to b( made, and he was forced to tell his experience In the oomete y. Hla a-VYQ-stricken, audience; repeated tho tale, and in the course o. j two the original infant sh"1,1 to the size of a telegraph pole aw ( multiplied into a corps of coTVh; ,j neighborhood became niuch,,f.x",;Sl the graveyard was frequently " night by person who were curs see a real, live gho3t. )W , In time these tales Jf, of Sexton Wright, who has tfw the burying ground. He Is wo and has a generous whi e reaches almost to his walsU i spoiled the ghost story. "I was in the ccmeten "JU night and I didn't w was .digging a grave that v v ready the next morning. Jfi half dug when I heard a noi my head and looked arudA 1 0 was coming, but it was so a not make out anything; stopped and I stooped over to more when I heard it again. , as I raised my head grf about made up my mind KJlt when I looked out again ana tf running down the path Cf there had been , ajj $ that cemetery dpn't you thin have seen it?" |